Comments on: Aye, Chihuahua! http://www.dfs-pet-blog.com/2009/12/chihuahuas/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:06:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Keith G. http://www.dfs-pet-blog.com/2009/12/chihuahuas/comment-page-1/#comment-1083 Keith G. Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:59:48 +0000 http://www.dfs-pet-blog.com/?p=3473#comment-1083 Yvonne, You make some excellent points. I'm guessing most of the chihuahua's did not come from celebrity homes, since they have the financial resources to guarantee better placement of those animals and their care. To bring a positive note to all of this, there are some shelters that have much stricter adoption policies than others, including lots of paperwork and personal interviews to determine eligibility. Of course, when a shelter is swelling with pets its hard to turn away people wanting to take them home, so I can see how that would be hard as well. Yvonne,

You make some excellent points. I’m guessing most of the chihuahua’s did not come from celebrity homes, since they have the financial resources to guarantee better placement of those animals and their care. To bring a positive note to all of this, there are some shelters that have much stricter adoption policies than others, including lots of paperwork and personal interviews to determine eligibility. Of course, when a shelter is swelling with pets its hard to turn away people wanting to take them home, so I can see how that would be hard as well.

]]> By: Yvonne DiVita http://www.dfs-pet-blog.com/2009/12/chihuahuas/comment-page-1/#comment-1008 Yvonne DiVita Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:59:15 +0000 http://www.dfs-pet-blog.com/?p=3473#comment-1008 I am appalled that this happens - not just to precious Chihuahuas but to many breeds that celebrities adopt then abandon. How sad that we, as a society, even allow irresponsible people to have pets. I don't quite know how we would regulate the problem (after all, we let irresponsible people have kids, too!) but we need to ask hard questions, do in-home visits, keep our eye on these dogs and cats that go to celebrity homes, just because. Now, all we need is the $$ to do that. I am appalled that this happens – not just to precious Chihuahuas but to many breeds that celebrities adopt then abandon. How sad that we, as a society, even allow irresponsible people to have pets. I don’t quite know how we would regulate the problem (after all, we let irresponsible people have kids, too!) but we need to ask hard questions, do in-home visits, keep our eye on these dogs and cats that go to celebrity homes, just because. Now, all we need is the $$ to do that.

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